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Evans TS, Ellison N, Boudreau MR, Strickland BK, Street GM, Iglay RB. What drives wild pig (Sus scrofa) movement in bottomland and upland forests? Mov Ecol 2024; 12:32. [PMID: 38664784 PMCID: PMC11044336 DOI: 10.1186/s40462-024-00472-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2024] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
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BACKGROUND The wild pig (Sus scrofa) is an exotic species that has been present in the southeastern United States for centuries yet continues to expand into new areas dominated by bottomland and upland forests, the latter of which are less commonly associated with wild pigs. Here, we aimed to investigate wild pig movement and space use attributes typically used to guide wild pig management among multiple spatiotemporal scales. Our investigation focused on a newly invaded landscape dominated by bottomland and upland forests. METHODS We examined (1) core and total space use using an autocorrelated kernel density estimator; (2) resource selection patterns and hot spots of space use in relation to various landscape features using step-selection analysis; and (3) daily and hourly differences in movement patterns between non-hunting and hunting seasons using generalized additive mixed models. RESULTS Estimates of total space use among wild pigs (n = 9) were smaller at calculated core (1.2 ± 0.3 km2) and 90% (5.2 ± 1.5 km2) isopleths than estimates reported in other landscapes in the southeastern United States, suggesting that wild pigs were able to meet foraging, cover, and thermoregulatory needs within smaller areas. Generally, wild pigs selected areas closer to herbaceous, woody wetlands, fields, and perennial streams, creating corridors of use along these features. However, selection strength varied among individuals, reinforcing the generalist, adaptive nature of wild pigs. Wild pigs also showed a tendency to increase movement from fall to winter, possibly paralleling increases in hard mast availability. During this time, there were also increases in anthropogenic pressures (e.g. hunting), causing movements to become less diurnal as pressure increased. CONCLUSIONS Our work demonstrates that movement patterns by exotic generalists must be understood across individuals, the breadth of landscapes they can invade, and multiple spatiotemporal scales. This improved understanding will better inform management strategies focused on curbing emerging invasions in novel landscapes, while also protecting native natural resources.
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- Tyler S Evans
- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mississippi State University, 775 Stone Boulevard, Mississippi State, Mississippi, 39762, USA.
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mississippi State University, 775 Stone Boulevard, Mississippi State, Mississippi, 39762, USA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mississippi State University, 775 Stone Boulevard, Mississippi State, Mississippi, 39762, USA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mississippi State University, 775 Stone Boulevard, Mississippi State, Mississippi, 39762, USA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mississippi State University, 775 Stone Boulevard, Mississippi State, Mississippi, 39762, USA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mississippi State University, 775 Stone Boulevard, Mississippi State, Mississippi, 39762, USA
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Gantchoff MG, Conlee L, Boudreau MR, Iglay RB, Anderson C, Belant JL. Spatially-explicit population modeling to predict large carnivore recovery and expansion. Ecol Modell 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Kramer C, Boudreau MR, Miller RS, Powers R, VerCauteren K, Brook RK. Summer habitat use and movements of invasive wild pigs (Sus scrofa) in Canadian agro-ecosystems. CAN J ZOOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2021-0116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Resource selection informs understanding of a species’ ecology and is especially pertinent for invasive species. Since introduced to Canada, wild pigs (Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1978) remain understudied despite recognized negative impacts to native and agricultural systems globally. Elsewhere in North America, pigs typically use forests and forage in agricultural crops. We hypothesized Canadian wild pigs would behave similarly and using GPS locations from 15 individuals we examined diel and seasonal resource selection and movement in the Canadian prairie region. Forests were predominately selected during the day, while corn (Zea mays L.), oilseeds, and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) were predominately selected at night. Forests and corn were consistently selected throughout the growing season. Wetlands and forests showed greater use rates than other habitats, with evident trade-offs as crop use increased with the timing of maturation. Activity was consistent with foraging in growing crops. Results indicate diel patterns were likely a function of short-term needs to avoid daytime anthropogenic risk, while seasonal patterns demonstrate how habitats that fill multiple functional roles – food, cover, and thermoregulation – can be optimized. Understanding selection by invasive species is an important step in understanding their potential environmental impacts in novel environments and informs their management.
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- Corey Kramer
- University of Saskatchewan College of Agriculture and Bioresources, 98627, Animal and Poultry Science, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Mississippi State University College of Forest Resources, 237137, Wildlife, Fisheries, and Aquaculture, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States
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- USDA, 1097, Bismarck, North Dakota, United States
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- USDA-APHIS National Wildlife Research Center, 93514, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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- University of Saskatchewan College of Agriculture and Bioresources, 98627, Department of Animal and Poultry Science & Indigenous Land Management Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada,
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Hammerschlag N, McDonnell LH, Rider MJ, Street GM, Hazen EL, Natanson LJ, McCandless CT, Boudreau MR, Gallagher AJ, Pinsky ML, Kirtman B. Ocean warming alters the distributional range, migratory timing, and spatial protections of an apex predator, the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier). Glob Chang Biol 2022; 28:1990-2005. [PMID: 35023247 PMCID: PMC9305416 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Revised: 09/14/2021] [Accepted: 12/12/2021] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Given climate change threats to ecosystems, it is critical to understand the responses of species to warming. This is especially important in the case of apex predators since they exhibit relatively high extinction risk, and changes to their distribution could impact predator-prey interactions that can initiate trophic cascades. Here we used a combined analysis of animal tracking, remotely sensed environmental data, habitat modeling, and capture data to evaluate the effects of climate variability and change on the distributional range and migratory phenology of an ectothermic apex predator, the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier). Tiger sharks satellite tracked in the western North Atlantic between 2010 and 2019 revealed significant annual variability in the geographic extent and timing of their migrations to northern latitudes from ocean warming. Specifically, tiger shark migrations have extended farther poleward and arrival times to northern latitudes have occurred earlier in the year during periods with anomalously high sea-surface temperatures. A complementary analysis of nearly 40 years of tiger shark captures in the region revealed decadal-scale changes in the distribution and timing of shark captures in parallel with long-term ocean warming. Specifically, areas of highest catch densities have progressively increased poleward and catches have occurred earlier in the year off the North American shelf. During periods of anomalously high sea-surface temperatures, movements of tracked sharks shifted beyond spatial management zones that had been affording them protection from commercial fishing and bycatch. Taken together, these study results have implications for fisheries management, human-wildlife conflict, and ecosystem functioning.
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- Neil Hammerschlag
- Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric ScienceUniversity of MiamiMiamiFloridaUSA
- Leonard & Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and PolicyUniversity of MiamiCoral GablesFloridaUSA
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- Leonard & Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and PolicyUniversity of MiamiCoral GablesFloridaUSA
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- Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric ScienceUniversity of MiamiMiamiFloridaUSA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and AquacultureMississippi State UniversityStarkvilleMississippiUSA
- Quantitative Ecology and Spatial Technologies LaboratoryMississippi State UniversityStarkvilleMississippiUSA
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- Environmental Research DivisionNOAA Southwest Fisheries Science CenterMontereyCaliforniaUSA
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- National Marine Fisheries ServiceNarragansett LaboratoryNOAA Northeast Fisheries Science CenterNarragansettRhode IslandUSA
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- National Marine Fisheries ServiceNarragansett LaboratoryNOAA Northeast Fisheries Science CenterNarragansettRhode IslandUSA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and AquacultureMississippi State UniversityStarkvilleMississippiUSA
- Quantitative Ecology and Spatial Technologies LaboratoryMississippi State UniversityStarkvilleMississippiUSA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural ResourcesRutgers, The State University of New JerseyNew BrunswickNew JerseyUSA
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- Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric ScienceUniversity of MiamiMiamiFloridaUSA
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Boudreau MR, Gantchoff MG, Ramirez‐Reyes C, Conlee L, Belant JL, Iglay RB. Using habitat suitability and landscape connectivity in the spatial prioritization of public outreach and management during carnivore recolonization. J Appl Ecol 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Melanie R. Boudreau
- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture Mississippi State University Mississippi State MS USA
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- Global Wildlife Conservation Center State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse NY USA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture Mississippi State University Mississippi State MS USA
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- Missouri Department of Conservation Columbia MO USA
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- Global Wildlife Conservation Center State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse NY USA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture Mississippi State University Mississippi State MS USA
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Hušek J, Boudreau MR, Panek M. Hunter estimates of game density as a simple and efficient source of information for population monitoring: A comparison to targeted survey methods. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0256580. [PMID: 34424923 PMCID: PMC8382201 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Hunters in Europe gather non-survey game species population estimates to inform wildlife management, however, the quality of such estimates remains unclear. We compared estimates of game density, realized annual intrinsic growth rates, and period mean growth rates between hunter obtained data and data obtained by targeted survey methods for four species in Poland from 1960 to 2014. Raw hunter estimates were strongly positively correlated to spotlight counts of red fox (18 years of monitoring), strip counts of brown hare (21 years) and grey partridge (25 years), male call counts of partridge (24 years), and complete counts of roe deer (49 years), and not related to spotlight counts of brown hare (15 years). Realized annual intrinsic growth rates derived from hunter estimates were strongly positively related to annual intrinsic growth rates derived from strip counts of grey partridge and complete counts of roe deer, but only weakly or not related to strip counts of brown hare, spotlight counts of red fox and brown hare, and male call counts of grey partridge. The period length at which the period mean growth rates derived from hunter estimates and estimates from other methods were strongly correlated was largely variable among methods and species. In the roe deer, correlation between these variables was strong across all years, while in smaller game species the period mean growth rates based on hunter estimates and other methods had the strongest association in period lengths of 6 to 11 years. We conclude that raw hunter estimates convey largely similar information to that provided by other targeted survey methods. Hunter estimates provide a source of population data for both the retrospective and prospective analysis of game population development when more robust estimates are unavailable.
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- Jan Hušek
- National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
- Department of Biology, University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, & Agriculture, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America
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- Research Station, Polish Hunting Association, Czempiń, Poland
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Boudreau MR, Seguin JL, Lavergne SG, Sonnega S, Scholl L, Kenney AJ, Krebs CJ. Please come again: attractive bait augments recapture rates of capture-naïve snowshoe hares. Wildl Res 2020. [DOI: 10.1071/wr18200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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ContextCapture–recapture sampling is one of the most commonly used methods for monitoring population demographics and is needed in a wide variety of studies where repeat sampling of individuals is desired. Although studies employing capture–recapture methods often assume unbiased sampling, it is well established that inherent capture biases can occur with these methods, including those related to baits. Reducing sources of sampling bias and augmenting recapture reliability is necessary for capture-dependent studies. However, few studies have examined the efficacy of baits on individuals with variable capture experience.
AimsTo investigate the use of an attractant-augmented bait in enhancing capture–recapture probabilities for snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus).
MethodsTo examine the efficacy of different attractant-augmented bait types, a variety of baits were created, with bait preference tested on a captive hare. Because a strawberry jam-based bait was preferentially consumed (in comparison with other tested baits), the effectiveness of this attractant in enhancing capture–recapture rates was subsequently examined in wild hares, using paired live-trapping field trials (n=6 trials).
ResultsLive-trapping trials showed that although overall hare capture rates were not affected by the use of a jam-based bait, recaptures were 33.1% higher in capture-naïve individuals exposed to our attractant. This was not the case for hares with prior capture experience; such hares had an equal likelihood of being recaptured regardless of the bait type used.
ConclusionsThe tested attractant improved recapture rates of capture-naïve hares.
ImplicationsStudies relying on high recapture rates should use methods that maximise recapture rates wherever possible, including the use of baits that may augment recaptures in capture-naïve animals.
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Ferreira CC, Hossie TJ, Jenkins DA, Wehtje M, Austin CE, Boudreau MR, Chan K, Clement A, Hrynyk M, Longhi J, MacFarlane S, Majchrzak YN, Otis JA, Peers MJL, Rae J, Seguin JL, Walker S, Watt C, Murray DL. The Recovery Illusion: What Is Delaying the Rescue of Imperiled Species? Bioscience 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biz113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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With unprecedented losses in biodiversity, the need for stronger environmental policy has emerged as a conservation priority. Yet recovery planning for imperiled species remains a cumbersome, slow legislative process. In the present article, we examine features of recovery planning for species listed under Canada's Species at Risk Act to determine those influencing recovery planning duration. We found that the time to completion of recovery strategies increases with the number of jurisdictions concurrently listing the species, greater land tenure diversity, species population size, and road density. Species at risk in Canada with no listing status in the United States also suffered longer delays. To achieve a more efficient, timely, and defensible implementation of recovery planning, we recommend that governments prioritize recovery planning on the basis of risk level, promote transjurisdictional collaboration among listing agencies, anticipate and mitigate conservation challenges associated with multitenured and developed landscapes, and adopt procedures that enhance compliance with legislated timelines for recovery planning.
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- Catarina C Ferreira
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ Department of Conservation Biology, in Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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Boudreau MR, Seguin JL, Boonstra R, Palme R, Boutin S, Krebs CJ, Murray DL. Experimental increase in predation risk causes a cascading stress response in free-ranging snowshoe hares. Oecologia 2019; 191:311-323. [PMID: 31535254 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-019-04500-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2018] [Accepted: 09/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Extensive research confirms that environmental stressors like predation risk can profoundly affect animal condition and physiology. However, there is a lack of experimental research assessing the suite of physiological responses to risk that may arise under realistic field conditions, leaving a fragmented picture of risk-related physiological change and potential downstream consequences on individuals. We increased predation risk in free-ranging snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) during two consecutive summers by simulating natural chases using a model predator and monitored hares intensively via radio-telemetry and physiological assays, including measures designed to assess changes in stress physiology and overall condition. Compared to controls, risk-augmented hares had 25.8% higher free plasma cortisol, 15.9% lower cortisol-binding capacity, a greater neutrophil:lymphocyte skew, and a 10.4% increase in glucose. Despite these changes, intra-annual changes in two distinct condition indices, were unaffected by risk exposure. We infer risk-augmented hares compensated for changes in their stress physiology through either compensatory foraging and/or metabolic changes, which allowed them to have comparable condition to controls. Although differences between controls and risk-augmented hares were consistent each year, both groups had heightened stress measures during the second summer, likely reflecting an increase in natural stressors (i.e., predators) in the environment. We show that increased predation risk in free-ranging animals can profoundly alter stress physiology and that compensatory responses may contribute to limiting effects of such changes on condition. Ultimately, our results also highlight the importance of biologically relevant experimental risk manipulations in the wild as a means of assessing physiological responses to natural stressors.
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- Melanie R Boudreau
- Environmental and Life Sciences, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, K9J 0G2, Canada.
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- Environmental and Life Sciences, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, K9J 0G2, Canada
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- Center for Neurobiology of Stress, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Veterinary Medicine, 1210, Vienna, Austria
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- Faculty of Science, 1-001 CCIS, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9, Canada
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- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Environmental and Life Sciences, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, K9J 0G2, Canada
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Pinheiro A, de Sousa-Pereira P, Almeida T, Ferreira CC, Otis JA, Boudreau MR, Seguin JL, Lanning DK, Esteves PJ. Sequencing of VDJ genes in Lepus americanus confirms a correlation between VHn expression and the leporid species continent of origin. Mol Immunol 2019; 112:182-187. [PMID: 31174011 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2019.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2018] [Revised: 03/12/2019] [Accepted: 05/27/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Leporid VH genes used in the generation of their primary antibody repertoire exhibit highly divergent lineages. For the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) four VHa lineages have been described, the a1, a2, a3 and a4. Hares (Lepus spp.) and cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) express one VHa lineage each, the a2L and the a5, respectively, along with a more ancient lineage, the Lepus spp. sL and S. floridanus sS. Both the European rabbit and the Lepus europaeus use a third lineage, VHn, in a low proportion of their VDJ rearrangements. The VHn genes are a conserved ancestral polymorphism that is being maintained in the leporid genome.Their usage in a low proportion of VDJ rearrangements by both European rabbit and L. europaeus but not S. floridanus has been argued to be a remnant of an ancient European leporid immunologic response to pathogens. To address this hypothesis, in this study we sequenced VDJ rearranged genes for another North American leporid, L. americanus. Our results show that L. americanus expressed these genes less frequently and in a highly modified fashion compared to the European Lepus species. Our results suggest that the American leporid species use a different VH repertoire than the European species which may be related with an immune adaptation to different environmental conditions, such as different pathogenic agents.
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- Ana Pinheiro
- CIBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBio Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal.
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- CIBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBio Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal; Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal; Max von Pettenkofer-Institute for Virology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- CIBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBio Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal; Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Conservation Biology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, United States
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- CIBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBio Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal; Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal; Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias da Saúde, IPSN, CESPU, 4585-116, Gandra, Portugal
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Studd EK, Boudreau MR, Majchrzak YN, Menzies AK, Peers MJL, Seguin JL, Lavergne SG, Boonstra R, Murray DL, Boutin S, Humphries MM. Use of Acceleration and Acoustics to Classify Behavior, Generate Time Budgets, and Evaluate Responses to Moonlight in Free-Ranging Snowshoe Hares. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Ferreira C, Bastille-Rousseau G, Bennett AM, Ellington EH, Terwissen C, Austin C, Borlestean A, Boudreau MR, Chan K, Forsythe A, Hossie TJ, Landolt K, Longhi J, Otis JA, Peers MJL, Rae J, Seguin J, Watt C, Wehtje M, Murray DL. The evolution of peer review as a basis for scientific publication: directional selection towards a robust discipline? Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2015; 91:597-610. [PMID: 25865035 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2014] [Revised: 03/13/2015] [Accepted: 03/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Peer review is pivotal to science and academia, as it represents a widely accepted strategy for ensuring quality control in scientific research. Yet, the peer-review system is poorly adapted to recent changes in the discipline and current societal needs. We provide historical context for the cultural lag that governs peer review that has eventually led to the system's current structural weaknesses (voluntary review, unstandardized review criteria, decentralized process). We argue that some current attempts to upgrade or otherwise modify the peer-review system are merely sticking-plaster solutions to these fundamental flaws, and therefore are unlikely to resolve them in the long term. We claim that for peer review to be relevant, effective, and contemporary with today's publishing demands across scientific disciplines, its main components need to be redesigned. We propose directional changes that are likely to improve the quality, rigour, and timeliness of peer review, and thereby ensure that this critical process serves the community it was created for.
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- Catarina Ferreira
- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada.,CIBIO, InBIO - Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universidade do Porto, Campus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal.,Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo, s/n, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, K9J 7B8, Ontario, Canada
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